Ambassador Simone Borg

Professor Simone Borg is Malta’s Ambassador for Climate Action and chairs the National Climate Action Board. Prof Borg is a resident academic at the Faculty of Laws, University of Malta, a visiting International law professor at the IMO International Maritime Law Institute and has lectured at various Universities abroad. She has been Malta’s Ambassador on Climate Action since 2011 and legal adviser to the Maltese government in International law and policy relating to climate, ocean governance and biodiversity conservation. During Malta’s tenure of the OSCE’s chair in office, she is the OSCE Special Representative on Climate Change.

Prof Borg started her career as a diplomat with the Ministry of Foreign Affairs then headed the Legal and Multilateral Affairs department, within the Ministry responsible for the Environment where she drafted national environmental law and was Malta’s negotiator for various Environmental Multilateral Agreements, particularly at the climate change negotiations. She coordinated the transposition of the environmental acquis communautaire, before Malta joined the European Union in 2004. In 2017, during Malta’s tenure of the Presidency of the Council of the European Union, she chaired the EU working party on climate negotiations. She is also very active in promoting climate action with stakeholders and civil society.

Prof Borg is a member of the IUCN Commission on Environmental Law, its sub-committee on the oceans and has authored various publications on both ocean governance and climate change. In 2017 she received the French National Order of Merit for her work as a diplomat on climate action and was recently awarded the Inspirational Leadership Award by the British High Commission in Malta for her work on climate action and in 2022 received Malta the Medal for Service to the Republic of Malta, also for her work in Malta and abroad on climate action.